Dr. Jekyll

And possibly reliability (as long as the balljoints were better)

Godfather | Jay

Forgive my ignorance, but why must the whole arm be replaced?

Pat-SoCal

it'd be an absolute nightmare to run that kind of hardware on the street... even with seals, the bearings would get dirt in them and fail.

FixedWing

Looks to me as if they have taken the stock unit and replaced the rubber bushing with a solid bearing of some sort. It would take a lot more work to replace the ball joints. So the solid bearings are easily replaced but the ball joint will still fail. in fact, it will likely put even greater peak loads on the ball joint.

The big advantage is that without the rubber bushing the alignment would stay perfectly accurate. This really is a racing part. But might actually be worth it if one were insane enough. :-p

Stephen

Ochlockonee

When I replaced mine at 80K miles with a lot of hard launches, I noticed some tearing in the bushings.

FixedWing

Yes, I agree. You would end up rebuilding them regularly.

FixedWing

Do you run them on your car? Do you think it would be worth the effort on the track??

AJN334

i believe its some swedish company, though they make some sick parts, *hint* think intake *hint*

Johnny Bravo

depends on what joint.. and how the forces affect the geometry.. but the results of compliance isnt always negative.

FixedWing

I can imagine that the designers might build in some variation to the geometry to take account for the elasticity, but I can't think of an example where it would be beneficial.

Stephen